I didn't know this about Mangog. What context revolves around this fight with Mangog? Honestly, I haven't read Thor comics in a minute or so. The only reason I knew Thor had the full Odin force is from the Thor forums IIRC...someone posted pics.
I'm as curious as you are about how Thor with the Odin force will be portrayed. He should be well on "up there" on the power scale. Funny to think Cates had Thor w/the power cosmic as someone who could defeat Galactus. At the time, I was under the impression Thor had the full Odin force then. Of course, now we know otherwise. Maybe I shouldn't say I'm curious...just more worried. Cates' has a difficult time with power levels. We shall see.
"Sir, does this mean that Ann Margret's not coming?"
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"One of the maddening but beautiful things about comics is that you have to give characters a sense of change without changing them so much that they violate the essence of who they are." ~ Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont's X-Men.
The God of Hammers is a villainized Mjolnir (wielded by the embodied Mother Storm from Jason Aaron's Thor run, infected by Mangog's rage when re-forged in the Sun). Was capable of open-fracturing Thor's arm, paralyzing Odin (granted taking shots at him was already common place, though the Storm had fought Odin in the good old days), fly itself back from being teleported to the ass end of creation in the time it took for Odin to try to brag about the BFR, and the assemblage of the Avengers, X-Men, Doc Strange, Beta Ray Bill (armed with the Twilight Sword), Freyja etc. was deemed insufficient to fight it off.
He does seem to just "roll with it" sometimes regarding character capabilities.Cates' has a difficult time with power levels.
He got part of it when he became King of Asgard at the end of the "War of the Realms". I don't remember him having too many feats apart from him throwing his hammer straight from Asgard to Earth to kill a giant monster. He was also denting the Destroyer armor with his fists in Avengers when he was working out.
He was also able to take on Galactus when the Big G made Thor his herald (he got part of the Power Cosmic).
He actually killed Galactus at the end of that arc in pretty spectacular fashion.
It's all a little difficult to explain because it doesn't really line up with established Power Levels at all.
He doesn’t.
I think he used everything up when he blew up Galactus.
But he has access to Phoenix Force fire power because he’s apparently the son of the Phoenix.
Before you ask, I can’t explain it..lololol. It’s one of those weird things Jason Aaron is tacking onto Thor.
Thor, sans retcons, is (has been) the son of Odin and Gaia (Earth), whom Odin referred to as "Jord."
So anyone who now makes it so that Thor is no longer Gaia/Jord's son but instead the Phoenix's, has destroyed Thor's old origin story and replaced it with a new one.
Unless the continuity is even more convoluted than I'm aware. Since I'm old school, I wouldn't know.
"Sir, does this mean that Ann Margret's not coming?"
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"One of the maddening but beautiful things about comics is that you have to give characters a sense of change without changing them so much that they violate the essence of who they are." ~ Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont's X-Men.
Okay then, so not Mangog per se, but an offshoot of sorts. Got it. Thank you.
I admit the upcoming "Banner of War" storyline? I will buy it because its my favorite comic rivalry of all time. But I'm low key gritting my teeth, hoping for the least amount of cringe..He does seem to just "roll with it" sometimes regarding character capabilities.
"Sir, does this mean that Ann Margret's not coming?"
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"One of the maddening but beautiful things about comics is that you have to give characters a sense of change without changing them so much that they violate the essence of who they are." ~ Ann Nocenti, Chris Claremont's X-Men.